These ear protection tips can save your damaged hearing

Hearing loss will bring great trouble to our life and work. However, hearing loss is related to many factors. What are the specific causes of hearing loss? How can we protect our ear health?

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Hearing loss is related to many factors

Some easy ways to save your hearing loss

According to OMS (organic mass spectrometry) in 2015, 1.1 billion young people around the world suffer from hearing loss. It’s time for us to pay attention to our hearing!

“In recent years, sudden deafness has increased significantly, which is due to the ischemia of inner ear hair cells caused by tiredness, mental tension, excessive emotion, anger, excessive drinking, viral cold and other circumstances, resulting in sudden deafness. Work stress, life rhythm and bad eating habits are all the reasons for it. ”

In addition, in our life, noise (improper use of earphones), poor sleep conditions, high mood swings, ear digging, smoking, drinking and other bad habits will cause hearing loss.

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How can we form good ear habits

Keep away from hearing impairment

1. Don’t pick out your ears

The skin of the external auditory canal is tender, closely connected with the cartilage membrane, with less subcutaneous tissue and poor blood circulation. If the force is not used properly when pulling out the ear, it is easy to cause damage and infection of the external auditory canal, resulting in swelling, inflammation and ulceration of the external auditory canal. When pulling out the ear, a little attention is not paid. The scoop will also hurt the tympanic membrane or the auditory ossicles, causing perforation of the tympanic membrane and affecting the hearing.

Earwax is a kind of natural secretion to protect the external auditory canal. It doesn’t need to be cleaned specially. It only needs to clean the auricle every day. At ordinary times, do not use wooden sticks, hairpins and other ear tapping to stop itching, in order to prevent damage to the eardrum deep in the ear canal, or even cause traumatic tympanic membrane perforation and suppurative otitis media and other lesions, leading to different degrees of hearing loss. Do not think that cotton stick is a better ear cleaning tool, in fact, it will only push most of the earwax deeper into the ear hole, forming a impaction, and the cotton ball may also be left in the ear canal.

2. Avoid noise contact

A large number of studies have shown that the habit of listening to music will cause hearing impairment in young people, and the ears will be very sensitive in a short period of time (tinnitus, hearing allergy ）In the long run, it will have more serious consequences than the old-age deafness from the age of 65. The long-term contact of the ear with various noises, such as the roar of machines, the noise of people, the sound of gongs and drums, will cause the micro blood vessels of the inner ear to be in a state of spasm, the blood supply of the inner ear to be reduced, and the hearing loss. Listening to the radio should not be too long, the volume should not be too large. Listen for a long time should rest for a while to avoid causing hearing fatigue.

Experts suggest that you should listen to music with your ears bare. When using the mobile phone, adjust the volume to 40-50db, clear, not more than 60% of the maximum volume, and take a rest after listening to excessively intense music for about 1 hour; for light music and slow pop music, take a rest for 100 minutes; each time use the mobile phone should be controlled within 10 minutes. If you need to wear headphones, you’d better use headphones, high-quality headphones, headphones with noise reduction function, and less earplugs. Do not wear headphones for a long time, let alone sleep with them. Do not listen to the walkman in noisy and dangerous environment, so as to avoid the occurrence of imperceptible surrounding dangerous situations!

3. Prevent water from flowing into ears when washing, bathing and swimming

When washing or bathing, cotton ball can be used to plug ears to prevent sewage from flowing into ear canal. Because skin and tympanic membrane soak in water, add cerumen (that is to say ear silkworm, earwax) stimulation, easy to cause otitis externa. If the original tympanic membrane perforation, water into the ear cause otitis media recurrence. Professor Yang Zhongchen also reminded us that “those who suffer from diseases such as otitis externa, otitis media, cerumen embolism of the external auditory canal, tympanic membrane perforation, etc., should not swim until they are corrected. In particular, Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection, because this bacteria can cause auricle perichondritis, cartilage necrosis, and eventually lead to auricle deformity (cauliflower like ear). ”

4. Avoid external hand blows on ears and head

It is not allowed to hit the ear with the hand, and the head can be hit with the hearing damage, while the ear with the hand can cause the tympanic membrane to rupture. In our life, it is common that the ear function is damaged due to the external force.

5. Avoid the influence of high pressure around ears

For example, when taking part in swimming, diving and other sports, pay attention not to let the ears touch the water surface first; when setting off firecrackers, it should be 3 meters away from the scene or cover the ears with hands; it is not allowed to hit people’s ears with hands, etc.

6. Develop good eating habits

Adjusting the diet structure and eating more foods rich in zinc, iron and calcium can reduce the lack of trace elements and effectively expand the microvasculature, so as to promote the blood supply of the inner ear and effectively prevent hearing loss.

If the concentration of cholesterol in the blood is too high, it will cause atherosclerosis of the blood vessel wall, which will reduce the blood supply of the inner ear, malnutrition of the hearing organ, lead to hearing loss or deafness. Therefore, do not eat high salt, high fat and low cellulose food for a long time. Do not overeat, and quit smoking and drinking.

7. Regular hearing test

Senile deafness is the expression of human aging process in the auditory organs. The age and development speed of its emergence vary from person to person, which is related to the inheritance and various harmful factors in the whole life process. Hearing screening should be carried out regularly for newborns. Once the ears have some slight symptoms, we should pay enough attention to it. When hearing disorders are found, we should intervene as early as possible.

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Special reminder from experts

The following four groups of people should be very careful

Patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cerebral arteriosclerosis and diabetes: the blood circulation of the inner ear is very easy to cause sudden deafness. Active treatment of these diseases is very important to prevent microcirculation disorders and delay hearing loss in the elderly.

Systemic diseases cause deafness. Hypertension and arteriosclerosis are the first ones in clinic. Nephropathy, diabetes and hypothyroidism can also be caused. Therefore, the patients with these diseases should be monitored for their hearing.

If there is a cold (affecting the ventilation degree of eustachian tube), upper respiratory tract infection, Eustachian tube dysfunction, it is not suitable to fly, or it may cause aero otitis media, earache, tympanic membrane congestion, middle ear effusion, or even hearing loss.

People who blow their noses should master the correct blowing methods. If you blow your nose with improper force, the bacteria in your nose will enter the middle ear cavity, which will easily cause otitis media and lead to hearing loss. You should blow your nose one by one in the left and right nostrils. Do not close the left and right nostrils at the same time, because there is a lumen (eustachian tube) between the back of the nasal cavity and the middle ear cavity.

Hearing impairment will directly affect people’s life, work and study; for children, it can affect the development of their language ability, and for those who are serious, they can be deaf and dumb. So babies should pay attention to it.